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MAPPING (continued)

Other Resources

Other resources are available to help administrators of crime victim
services in their efforts to use crime-mapping technology. The following
programs are available to provide onsite technical assistance on GIS
to VOCA administrators.

Technical Assistance

The Justice Information Systems Technical Assistance Program provided
through SEARCH offers technical assistance to state and local justice
agencies in how to acquire, develop, manage, improve, and integrate their
automated information systems. SEARCH works with individual justice agencies
(such as a police department implementing a new records management system
or a court acquiring a new case management system) and with multidisciplinary
groups of justice agencies to help them plan for and integrate their
information systems at state, local, and regional levels. For more than
20 years, SEARCH programs have provided both onsite and in-house, no-cost
technical assistance to justice agencies throughout the country. For
more information, go to http://www.search.org/programs/technology/.

Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Centers

The Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) is a nonprofit
organization created in 1974 to promote the use of research in policy
decisions and to facilitate the exchange of criminal justice information
among states. JRSAs 50 constituent Statistical Analysis Centers
are located in almost every state and territory, where they conduct
objective
analyses to meet planning needs and address statewide policy issues.
The association also maintains a clearinghouse of state criminal justice
research
and programs, conducts multistate research, provides training and technical
assistance, and convenes national conferences. For more information
go to www.jrsa.org.

University Statistics and Research Center

An alternative resource for consultation could be a statistics and research
center at a nearby college or university. Some examples are undergraduate
or graduate schools of public administration, social work, criminal justice
science, and public health.

University Statistics and Research Internships

Agencies that are interested in using crime mapping may want to recruit
interns from the local university or college to help them in administrative
and strategic planning efforts.